Synonyms for lake powell
lake pow·ell

Princeton's WordNet

1. Lake Powellnoun

   the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River

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1. • Reservoir

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1. Chelsea Peters:

   Several years of below-normal snowpack across the Intermountain West mountains that supply the Colorado River Basin will continue to increase the water supply stress, which was already in jeopardy due to population increase, we recently saw this impact reservoir storage and lake levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Within the last year, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead have observed their lowest reservoir storage levels in 30 years.

2. Justin Mankin:

   We're kind of in some uncharted territory, socially and economically, it's totally within reason to expect that the next couple of weeks or so for [ Lake Powell ] to fall below the critical level.

3. Michael Bennet:

   If we end up drying out Lake Powell and Lake Mead and get to the situation where Lake Powell's unrecoverable, I can't imagine what the cost of Lake Powell will be, i'm glad we have a down payment that will buy us some time.

4. Justin Mankin:

   The drought is pretty baked in, my expectation is fully that the American West is going to be in a drought through the rest of this year, at the very least. To recover from Lake Powell, we're talking about multiple seasons of above-average precipitation.

5. Justin Mankin:

   It's kind of like the central bank of an economy, drawing money from local banks to kind of keep the economy afloat, lake Powell is the central bank of Colorado River. Maybe Lake Powell's workable for a little while, but just like a household, the longer Lake Powell's in debt, the harder Lake Powell gets. And Lake Powell's really the same thing with these reservoirs.